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Pakistan commandos flew in to hunt Taliban leaders in the Swat mountains, a strategy shift. The fight has now left 800,000 refugees.

EADS reported a worse-than-expected 40% drop in net profit, hurt by a $163 million charge on its troubled A400M military transport program and lower jet deliveries.

Stocks slipped as investors digested new measures of chain-store sales and foreign trade. Bank shares and auto makers Ford and GM were lower.

The head of the EPA said a finding that greenhouse gases are a public-health danger won't necessarily lead to government regulation of emissions.

The pilots of the plane that crashed in February near Buffalo, N.Y., rushed through checklists but spent much of the flight discussing personal issues, according to the cockpit recorder transcript.

The Madoff trustee sued hedge fund Harley International for more than $1 billion, claiming the fund "should have known" of the Ponzi scheme.

AIG trustees plan to tell lawmakers they are actively seeking new board members and to defend their own roles.

Nissan posted a deep quarterly loss and booked its first annual net loss since Ghosn took the helm. He expects the auto maker to return to profitability in the fiscal year ending March 2011.

Ford will sell 300 million common shares in a public offering designed to shore up the car maker's cash reserves and keep the company out of bankruptcy.

Sun Microsystems was in takeover talks with three different companies at one point, but chose Oracle because of the certainty offered by the software giant's bid. (SEC filing)

Morgan Stanley Chief Legal Officer Gary Lynch will add the title of vice chairman and move to London as part of a series of changes in the firm's legal department.

Bank of New York Mellon raised $1.2 billion in a follow-on offering of its common shares, pricing 42 million shares at $28.75 on Monday night.

New York's attorney general announced that an associate of Hank Morris has pleaded guilty to securities fraud in a probe involving the state's largest pension fund.

Alpha Natural Resources plans to buy Foundation Coal for about $1.5 billion in stock as it looks to diversify.

A group that includes Temasek Holdings, Hopu Fund and China Life purchased 13.5 billion shares of China Construction Bank from Bank of America for $7.3 billion.

The U.S. trade deficit widened for the first time in eight months during March to $27.58 billion, as the price and use of imported oil both climbed.

Citigroup will lend up to $5 billion in TARP funds in a municipal program to help finance construction of schools, airports, hospitals and other infrastructure products.

The number of homes for sale in many cities fell in April, a sign the market may be nearing a bottom. But the amount of foreclosed properties that will hit the market is still uncertain.

Target will expand food selections at its stores amid criticism by activist investor William Ackman.

Hewlett-Packard is considering replacing Microsoft's Windows with software developed by Google in some mini-PCs called netbooks.